Education
He attended the University of Waterloo, receiving a degree in Canadian studies, economics and history in 1981.
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The company was sold to Google of Mountain View, California in September 2006. Huggins has more than 25 years experience as a professional in the newspaper publishing, web/content publishing and high technology sectors, and is currently entrepreneur-in-residence for Ontario’s Regional Innovation Centre and for Invest Ottawa. In 2000, Huggins founded Cold North Wind, the first company to digitize the entire history of newspapers in their original published form.
Canada"s two largest newspapers, The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star were the first to participate in this process, with their archives being fully digitized and available in 2001.
The PaperofRecord.com collection was acquired in "secret" in 2006 by Google and announced publicly in 2008. He helped implement electronic “as of release” documents for Finance Canada and negotiated Soviet commercial electronic rights from Novosti Press Agency of the first commercial statistical trade information to the West for the New York Times Information Services.
In 2002, Huggins was nominated as Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. In 2006, Huggins was one of the founders of The name is an homage to Hugginsfather, a Barnardo orphan who was sent to Canada as a twelve-year-old to work on a farm outside the village of Norwich, in Southwestern Ontario.
Their prime focus is on historically based documentaries.
Their current project is The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth for Detroit Public Television.
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Huggins was also a member of the founding team of The Globe and Mail"s electronic information service Info Globe.
